[Gdal-dev] Compling GDAL 1.3.1 in MinGW

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 12/9/05, Mike Leahy <mgleahy at golden.net> wrote:
> Frank,
>
> Thanks - that did the trick.
>
> This leads me to a more general question: would I be better off if I
> were to use Cygwin instead of MinGW/MSYS for compiling code on Win32?
> It's been a while for me, but I seem to recall that Cygwin uses bash...

Mike,

The cygwin build case has some quirks as well, but at least
it should work out of the box for simple configurations.  One
of the messy things (I think) about the cygwin builds is that
it is very hard to add close source external libraries.

Best regards,
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